Presentation Title: Perioperative Mortality
Speaker: Daniel Sessler, MD
Professor and Vice President for Clinical and Outcomes Research
Department of Anesthesiology, McGovern Medical School
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Time: 7:00 AM ‐ 8:00 AM
Location: Medical School Building
Learning Format: In‐Person
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- List the major causes of postoperative mortality
- Describe the incidence, presentation, and mortality of postoperative myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS)
- List causes of respiratory complications
- Understand that ward hypoxemia is common, profound, and prolonged
- Describe a framework for reducing postoperative complications and mortality
Accreditation Statement:
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
- McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 Hour(s) Attendance w/ No Credit. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Event Disclosures:
Speakers:
Daniel Sessler, MD, Professor and Vice President for Clinical and Outcomes Research has disclosed a financial relationship with one or more ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients:
- Perceptive Medical – Advisory Committee Member – Relationship Has Not Ended
- Calorint – Advisory Committee Member – Relationship Has Not Ended
- HDAI – Advisory Committee Member – Relationship Has Not Ended
- Blue Spark – Consulting – Relationship Has Not Ended
- Diagnostics – Consulting – Relationship Has Not Ended
- Forge Labs – Consulting – Relationship Has Not Ended
- Medasense – Advisory Committee Member – Relationship Has Not Ended
Any financial relationship that was found to be relevant has been mitigated.
Planners and other Administrative Support:
Sasha Adams, MD, Associate Professor, Acute Care Surgery Program Director, General Surgery Residency Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Surgery, Lillian Kao, MD, Professor, Surgery, Richard Andrassy, MD, Aditi Kashikar, MD, Shah-Jahan Dodwad, DO, and Marina E Petsalis, MD have no financial relationship(s) within eligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.
Commercial Support:
This activity is not commercially supported.